Guardian archive clip

Resource Type: Image | Posted on 21st October 2011 by Liam Physick

Here is a clip from the Guardian newspaper’s archive section on 17th October 2011. The clip reproduced here is from 17th October 1829, reporting on the Rainhill Trials, and mentioning the Rocket, the Sans Pareil and the Novelty, though the Sans Pareil’s name is wrongly spelled “San Pareil”, and the name of its designer, Timothy Hackworth, as Ackworth

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Edge Hill Station is the oldest passenger railway station in the World. Some say when Stephenson's Rocket left Edge Hill for Manchester on the 15th September 1830 it marked the beginning of the modern world.